Heating & Cooling
HVAC (Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning) includes stories about HVAC systems to make them more energy efficient and environmentally friendly. Newer heating and cooling systems can lead to reduced energy consumption and put fewer greenhouse gases and other emissions into the air. Stories cover the implementation of the new HVAC systems as well as retrofits and upgrades of existing heating and cooling systems.
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Aviation Fuel Handling, Agriculture Carbon Credit, CARB, Clean Green
Here's the latest standards and compliance news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 12 items.
Airlines for America (A4A), the industry trade group ...
Volvo Sustainability Report: Hazardous Waste Up 14%, Energy Use 7% - But Sales Up 17%
From 2010 to 2011, Volvo Group's energy use rose 7 percent and its hazardous waste production rose by 14 percent - both smaller percentages than ...
Building Energy Ratings Policy Would Save $18bn, Create 59,000 Jobs by 2020, Report Finds
A national building energy rating and disclosure policy would cut energy costs by over $18 billion through 2020, and create more than 59,000 net new ...
SAP Sustainability Report: GHGs Up 8%, But Down 6% Relative to Sales
Software corporation SAP emitted eight percent more greenhouse gases in 2011 than 2010, its first year-on-year rise in such emissions since 2007, but its emissions ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: International Water Stewardship, Federal GHG Reporting, ZigBee, LEED, Greenroads
The Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) released the first draft of its International Water Stewardship Standard at the World Water Forum in ...
The Spaceship Company Receives Energy-Efficiency Check
Space travel may not seem the galaxy's greenest industry, but The Spaceship Company, a joint venture of Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and air vehicle design ...
IBM India, Ingersoll Rand Team Up in Building Management
IBM's Indian arm has entered into an agreement with industrial products firm Ingersoll Rand to provide energy-efficiency systems for a range of buildings.
In the agreement, IBM India will combine its intelligent building management system with ...
Efficiency Standards to Save Businesses, Consumers Over $1.1t by 2035, ACEEE Finds
Appliance, equipment, and lighting standards will save businesses and consumers more than $1.1 trillion by 2035, while cutting greenhouse gases and other emissions, according to ...
Aircuity Launches Building Management System
Air systems efficiency firm Aircuity has launched building management system Aircuity Advisor Services.
Advisor Services consists of a set of software-based tools designed to provide information ...
US Retrofits Worth $1tn Savings Over 10 Years, Report Says
U.S. retrofits could yield $1 trillion of energy savings over 10 years, equivalent to savings of about 30 percent of the country's annual electricity ...
IES Building Analysis Tool to Save Fitchburg State $1.5m
CBT Architects used software from sustainable building design consultant Integrated Environmental Solutions to help save Fitchburg State University a projected $1.5 million in construction costs ...
Apple Facilities Report: 'Biggest On-Site Fuel Cell' Planned for N.C. Data Center
Apple is building the largest non-utility fuel cell installation in the country, the company has announced in its 2012 facilities report.
The 5 MW system ...
Energy Efficiency Financing ‘Ready for Commercial Real Estate Market’
Energy efficiency financing is on track to become a mainstream class of financial assets that enjoys predictability, large volumes and high standardization, according to a ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Transatlantic Organic, Lighting Troffers, Sustainable Laundry Standard
Food products classified as organic in the European Union or the United States can be sold as such in either region. The agreement, which seeks ...
HBO, LIPA Team Up for Efficiency Upgrade
Long Island Power Authority is helping Home Box Office fund and install energy efficiency measures in an expansion of an existing communications center that should ...
TVA Power Savings Could Come from Energy Efficient Appliances
The mass installation of such energy efficiency measures as compact fluorescent lighting and heating and cooling systems could effectively flatten Tennessee's power demand for the ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: CARB Diesel Vehicles, China vs. EU ETS, Mexico Climate Law
California's On-Road Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicles (In-Use) Regulation has shifted the reporting date to March 30, 2012, for most privately and federally owned diesel fueled trucks ...
Retrofit to Give Tarlton $1m in Rebates
Progressive Lighting & Energy Solutions is to undertake an energy efficiency improvement project for Tarlton Properties, located in Menlo Park, Calif.
The project includes the installation ...
LG Launches Efficient HVAC Products
LG Electronics has announced energy efficiency improvements to to its HVAC products at the International Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Expo in Chicago.
The Multi V ...
EnTouch Launches Energy Monitor with Remote Access
EnTouch Controls has launched the GM8 Universal Energy Monitor, which works with its EnTouch Energy Management System (pictured) to provide facility energy data for small ...
